skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My loose train of thought:

0: I have not seen any data to show this would work. Kids would just buy and sell usb sticks filled with porn.

1: Life is already good in Canada, except for the housing situation and low wages.

2: People have a need to feel special and politicians are people.

3: Some people meet their need to feel special by changing their surroundings.

4: Since Canada is already good, except for wages and housing, and politicians can't figure out a way to fix that, they're meeting their need to feel special by being controversial.

5: Debating controversial subjects makes politicians feel special and important.

Conclusion: The root cause of this is narcissism.
> Traffic woes may never end, but they can certainly be alleviated.

And the way to do that is to give people alternatives to driving.
Fly by wire fraud?
Better than clipping them to a non-buoyant device. Or worse, the classic cement overshoes.
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> a large number of good software developers treat their profession as an engineering discipline and have earned the title of "Engineer"

It's just a word, this one is on you for thinking the word is special.

And I don't think it's relevant to discuss other-industry-specific engineer qualifications or what it means in Canada - if you are in an industry/country where the word engineer means something special, then this is a non-issue because it's enforced by laws and regulations. If you aren't, you're applying the standard in a place where it's not applicable.
Why? It's not due to his action that they're able to be made whole. That's the market. SBF got lucky with that. If crypto crashed, then...
One of the best looking LLM/RAG apps for desktop I've seen so far.
> When I suggest that people shouldn't fly in planes, I get responses like I've called their children ugly

It's one thing to do something to make yourself feel comfortable, it's another to say things to make others feel uncomfortable.
> Also, perhaps: after 20 years, software must be open-sourced.

Wow! Wouldn't that be great?! Like as in an international constitutional kind of ground rule saying any software must ultimately become source-available after X years and becomes public domain after Y years.

(Still plenty of wiggle room for monopolistic closed source, but at least it wouldn't be that way forever.)
IIRC serial numbers aren't unique. Even if the DJ was doing that, there would still be a chance. (albeit extremely small)
That’s what they call it in the aerospace industry /s
JR East covers not only metropolitan train services in Tokyo but also a wider real estate/retail portfolio and all of eastern Honshu, with about 46k total employees.

MTA in New York City has about 70k employees.
I thought this was about the other Muskrat
There is zero chance that a legally mandated certificate scheme won't require centrally-managed certificates to prevent the underage from loading illegally shared keys onto their devices.
Humans are hierarchical social creatures who crave respect, prestige, admiration, etc. Inflating job titles is an easy way to increase the value of the job to the worker by giving them more social capital.

People will stretch titles as much as possible. "Senior" engineers who have 2 years of experience after a coding bootcamp. "Managers" and "Directors" in marketing/HR/finance/etc who are 24 years old and have no managerial responsibility. Nurse practitioners who want to call themselves "doctors".

In this case "engineer" is the stretch title that provides that value.
TBH I think Michael Phelps would do just fine with this. :D
8% not being prosecuted would seem to mean that felonies are likely to get prosecuted, felonies getting downgraded to misdemeanors generally happens in the criminal proceedings process as part of a plea bargain and I would consider that as being "prosecuted" which covers a larger area than just being taken to trial.
Unions are why people that do difficult, dangerous, dirty work, can afford to live in cities like New York.

The apprenticeship system is just as difficult and time-consuming as college (maybe more so).

The issues with unions often revolve around corruption, but there seems to be corruption in almost any human endeavor.
Anthony Burgess's Clockwork Condition (1973)
Huawei breaks free from Google ecosystem with homegrown OS
> Treating everyone as if they were engaging in good faith is equally not a good approach to discourse.

In fact, it is the best approach to discourse, and the only one that does not impugn one's own credibility. It is correct to presume that everyone is arguing in good faith unless and until they make it explicit that they are arguing in bad faith.

> I get where you're coming from but the system you're proposing creates a situation where it's cheaper to pollute the discourse than the consequences you face for polluting the discourse.

You're misunderstanding. You're not 'polluting the discourse' by having bad motivations for making your arguments, because your motivations per se are not part of the discourse. Someone who has a bad motive for making a correct argument is still making a correct argument.

One only 'pollutes the discourse' by making bad arguments, but those arguments can be challenged for being bad arguments in themselves, which must be done prior to questioning motives.

Only when someone has (a) made a provably bad argument, and then (b) revealed that their bad argument was deliberately made in pursuit of an ulterior purpose, is it proper to criticize their intentions.

Until that point has been reached, challenging people's motives instead of refuting the substance of their arguments is itself an instance of arguing in bad faith.
True, the answer is always going to be "no" depending on how hard-lined you are about privacy.

But with a few reasonable concessions, you can get a lot of benefit.

For instance, most people believe that the government itself be able to verify your identity, through birth certificates or passports or drivers licenses or tax IDs.

If you're willing to allow the government to verify your identity, how about a trusted private company that you get to select?

If that company is then trusted by others as an identity verifier, then although you may have to reveal your identity to one trusted entity, you don't have to reveal your identity to any of the others that accept their attestations about attributes like age.
Or "Fool's Self Driving" to preserve the pronunciation:-)
No it's actually worse imo. They used that citation to justify this statement:

> Studies have noted that early intentionally exposure to pornography use in children and adolescents can lead to delinquent behavior, high-risk sexual behavior, and substance use.

Except the citation says the literal opposite. Worse, the "link" to substance abuse sounds an awful lot like the articles suggestion that the male group that wanted porn were typically "sensation seekers", but that doesn't imply causation at all! I don't have access to the full paper to see if there's anything that remotely supports the article's claims, but this is a solid sniff test fail.

Because the citations fail the sniff test so badly and trivially, IMO the article, a clear call to action, has to be called into question.

It's bad enough that I wonder if the link to the article ought to be flagged on HN: if it were a submission, it would definitely be flagged and removed.

P.S.: In my opinion, the person calling out the lack of statistics is also completely correct. It's one thing to claim all of this stuff is true, but if it can't be quantified, how are we supposed to balance the actions we take against the severity of the problem? What if it's close to line noise?

I have a lot of skepticism because the rise of the Internet was a global phenomena. I'm not even sure Internet pornography is even at its peak anymore, but during the rise to prominence you'd be hard-pressed to find a correlation of any kind with an increase in, say, sexual assault, because that just continued to fall sharply with the rise of the Internet. If there is some effect, it's certainly not very obvious.
No it was not. It was bland, linear, empty and it felt like an asset flip of fallout 4.

At least fallout 3 and NV had some great RPG elements.

Fallout 4 and Starfield were not great.

The graphics engine was dated 10 years ago, it's now comically underwhelming.
As my grandfather used to put it, you paid some "tuition of life" for a lesson you'll (hopefully) not soon forget.
I see articles like this claiming that there are tons of employees at Big Tech who get paid for doing basically nothing.

And yet, my (and all of my friends') combined observed experience of Big Tech is the opposite. Almost every team is understaffed, especially after layoffs.

It's not that there aren't inefficiencies; but they are of a more procedural/bureaucratic kind. Eg: layers of approvals or privacy reviews to do any analysis on user data, or poorly documented internal tech stacks with a high ramp up cost.

Has anyone here who works in Big Tech actually met these hordes of employees who are given no work for months?

Exceptions can happen in any large company (eg: someone joins a team right when a reorg is happening, and it takes a month to figure out where they fit in the new org), but I am extremely skeptical that this happens on a systematic basis.
Do you have a patent on this?
I'm not sure Martha Stewart actually did "hard time" - she spent what, a few months in jail? Try 10-20 years.

I'm also not arguing for against jail time for white collar crimes, just disputing that she specifically did hard time. Maybe the FTX guy or Enron guys are more appropriate for a comparison.
It did happen when migrating from Windows 7 to Windows 8. At least in terms of boot times, I'm unsure about general performance.
> What are you trying to gain, other than muddying the waters of conversations

How does enhanced clarity muddy the waters? Police are not labor, not practically or legally. Likewise, a CEO is not labor either, even though the CEO is apt to be an employee who shows up to work just like anyone else. Having a job that you go to work at is not what defines labor in this context. Considering all people who do work to be the same is what muddies the waters here.
OpenAI Is Readying an AI Search Product to Rival Google, Perplexity
is it better than prophet from meta?
Show HN: I created an app to talk to yourself about yourself
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Those stunt people also use special effects to make it look like they are on a building but really a padded floor is just below their feet. If you only can see their upper body it may be they are standing on a stool or someone is pushing them up (though in this case I would expect they are actually pulling themselves up with brute strength). They also do this stunt a dozen times and then in editing choose the cut that looks best.
Of course not, a huge number of (if not most) contracts contain agreements regarding future delivery of product or services. This is valid and normal arrangement. The contract is a promise to deliver that. If you don't deliver, you have breeched the contract.
Citizens should be no less armed than domestic law enforcement.

I'm not aware of cops having rocket launchers, but maybe they shouldn't.
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Offices have a lot more people per m² all of them using computer equipment continuously for 7hrs/day so in my experience they tend to have considerably higher cooling loads. I know from experience that a typical high rise office building in London, UK will have no heating requirement for most of the year; it is in cooling mode most of the time.
I guess they pre-trained the model to exploit common patterns found in any time-series (e.g., seasonalities, trends, etc.)... What would be interesting, though, is to see if it spots patterns that are domain-specific (e.g., the ventricular systole dip in an electrocardiogram), and possibly transfer those (that would be obviously useless in this specific example, but maybe there are interesting domain transfers out there)
Incorrect, he is an evolved dolphin.
Apparently!
I did not expect such a nice find after asking search engine this:

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=1700041

> There are two main types of single-wheeled vehicles. In
a unicycle, the rider sits above the wheel. These vehicles
are recognizable by most people. Less well known is the
monocycle, where the rider sits inside the wheel.
The problem is, once you access such shared objects in Python, it is never readonly access but actually read-write, because it modifies the refcount. The problem is also described here: https://ppwwyyxx.com/blog/2022/Demystify-RAM-Usage-in-Multip...

But also, you say you would prefer such a unbound memory access hack instead of using a global variable?

But also, why does it need to be a global variable? When you fork(), afterwards all the local variables are available to the child process. No need for global variables.
What’s money when you have billions? Isn’t jail worse then? I’d be prepared to pay a very large amount if it meant I could avoid going to jail. There is a much much much smaller amount (if any) of jail I’d accept in return for money.
The main issue is the actual effect of your actions. One person living as energy-frugally as possible may make them feel good, but ultimately it's pointless unless another couple of billion people join you, and sadly, many of us are some varying degree of apathetic or ignorant.

I may be wrong, but I think larger actions like replacing power plants, etc. are far easier to do at this point.
Interesting that the CIA conclusion for a device very similar to the article is "Not recommended for operational use due to its discomfort and very slight gain in speed over that of a swimmer equipped with fins."
Force those responsible to eat the cost of providing partial refunds to people who bought full self drive based on false claims.
Strongly disagree with both claims. Fraud of a sufficient degree causes harm at a scale that is equivalent (in economic terms at least) to the consequences of murder. And jail time absolutely speaks to wealthy people, given the amount of money and effort wealthy people will spend defending themselves to avoid it.
There is an underlying context here - hooks are "effects" from OCaml 5+ / Koka / recent Haskell / etc. Sebastian actually was asking in the ECMAScript mailing list several years ago about adding effects to JS. They built hooks hoping they'd get language-native support for extensible-effects.
Agreed - so much about the detail of how you would climb something comes down to details that would be hard to measure with a camera, like textures, your estimate of friction, etc. Very cool idea though, looks fun to test.
Hard time seems much more severe than fines and penalties, and the damages caused are much more severe than petty theft (which gets you jail time.) it seems totally appropriate to jail these people to me.
Europe was rich because its nations were high trust societies. They were ethnic monocultures with social cohesion, shared history, religion, and culturally aligned, peaceful, productive populations.
Remember around that time when the industry said that OpenCL would allow write-once run-everywhere compute code for a booming industry of diverse and competitive compute devices? I fell for that scam for a couple of years, before very fortunately getting a different job for long enough to watch the collapse from a safe distance.
This is a problem that everyone who has lived in the developed world knows very well.
As the police is able to solve less and less crimes, and less criminals are convicted, people stop thinking it is worth their time to report every crime.

As less persecutions end up in convictions, and as accusations of bias can mean the end of a police officer career, there's also a more lax attitude from the police force.

Crime becomes less risky and more rewarding, what drives crime force recruitment up, the culture becomes more and more accepting, and petty criminals over time graduate to more serious crimes. Substance abuse, violence, it all just adds to the culture.

Soon you'll start noticing that there areas of the city where police presence is virtually inexistent, and the people who live on those places realize that involving the police could bring unpleasant consequences. Those liberated areas are for all practical purposes, outside the reach of the State.

Soon, murders start going unnoticed, fights against rival gangs lead to deaths, but unless the bodies are found, nobody is going to involve the police. People simply cease to exist and disappear, no records.

Politicians, prosecutors and police chiefs soon realize the political advantage of not digging too much into reality and promoting the lie that the official statistics, utterly corrupted by the incomplete data collection, are trustworthy and represent the reality.

Terminally political people and journalists, that are nowadays basically propaganda officers, start gaslighting everyone that dares to say otherwise. You can't feel safe in the subway, but you are either crazy or a simpleton if you don't believe NYC is one of the safest places in the world, look at the data!
The article was heavy on the free research aspect, but light on the commercial application.

I'm curious about the business strategy. Does Google intend to license out tools, partner, or consult for commercial partners?
No matter how much the specs increase, developers find a way to use it all up. This approach would just accelerate that process.
Maybe design a pogo-stick-like action, pushing with both legs together?
Green. You want a green button.

There are split test services out there, like Optimizely.
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This will not apply to a small developer for years. At the point that it does, yes, if you make a GPT-5-level model from scratch, I think you can owe us some reports
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This is an insane way to legislate, so at best, it makes me think of underlying issues like corruption and incompetency.

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More holistically, it's alarming from a view of what they chose to focus on vs not

I'm pro-regulation, but at the model provider tier, I rather see things like the equivalent of Net Neutrality and rules on platform providers not unfairly competing with app providers. That's the main new thing to be figured out, afaict, at the generic platform/utility provider level.

AI risk is real. At the platform level, the issue isn't models capable of doing bad things, but whether you are a platform for those doing it and how liable you are. Something like KYC is an everyone problem and exists, so I'm unclear why the new legislative land grab, that's a distraction.

I rather see targeted risk/harm-based legislation for app providers... Except that also already largely exists. The bank making loan decisions is regulated. Phishing is already illegal, irrespective of it using AI. Which model provider helps AI users stay compliant is a market thing. If the gov wants to be helpful, make clear standards at that application level with real consumer/business harm, and providers can decide if they help streamline those audits.

AI Platform providers should be liable for knowingly enabling customers to do bad things (or intentionally ignoring), but the nature of compliance changes when you take this stance... KYC again, which already exists. So again, corruption, incompetency, or what?

These politicians and lobbyists could have focused on regulating specific risks for specific industries, or ensuring liability and fair competition for model providers. But they took a very different road that feels more about anti-oss, anticompetitive, personal power, posturing, and weak risk reduction.
> A unique combination of eleven numbers and letters appears twice on the front of the note. Each note has a unique serial number. The first letter of the serial number corresponds to the series year.

https://www.uscurrency.gov/denominations/bank-note-identifie...
Ack! Thanks for the info/link. I've now hidden this post.
They reference "a GPT-3 model with 356M parameters"

So GPT-3 Medium (from the GPT-3 paper) - feels pretty disingenuous to list that as no one is referencing that model when they say "GPT-3", but the 175B model.

I wasn't aware that size of the model (356M) was released- what am I missing here?

I also think it's relatively well understood that (with our current methods) transformers have a tipping point with parameter count, and I don't know of any models less than ~3B that are useful- arguably 7B.

Compare these benchmarks to, say, the RWKV 5/6 paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05892
agree, half the people in this thread havnt used it. i think it's probably clear to most FSD testers that end-to-end NN trained on video will get you L5 eventually.
The size of white collar crimes, measured in financial damage, and the large number of victims of many white collar crimes, not to mention the damage to the economy, institutional reputation, etc. makes a car theft ring that would get 10 years look like piffle.
ESA boosts Galileo navigation system constellation
Using a throwaway for obvious reasons...

As someone who has been convicted of a financial crime (theft of funds from an association account due in part to a gambling addiction).

The key word in your statement is "YOU". My sentence/deal involved restitution from my own funds. If I'd taken some of the money I took and put it into crypto, that would be -used- to make my victims whole, but it wouldn't be considered me making recompense, because the money I put into crypto would have been ill-gotten, and as such any gains were not mine to give.

That very much made a difference to the discussions between my attorney and the prosecutor.
If you worry that party B will be just as bad as party A in your measure of concern, then why are you using partisan language to describe your concern in the first place?

Privacy seems pretty orthogonal to partisan politics to me — it's not something that appears on any party's platform, nor is it something that any voter I know of has ever said is their highest concern for choosing an MP to elect (and how could it be, if candidates aren't even expected to hold public positions on the issue?)
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This is surprising to me considering Windows 10's EOL is set to October 14, 2025. I was interested in upgrading to Windows 11 but unfortunately my PC's processor is apparently not capable of running it (Intel Core i7 4790K).

Any idea if Microsoft will extend the EOL? If they don't I'm strongly considering switching to Linux. Totally fed up with what Windows has become.

EDIT:

Looked it up, and Microsoft is willing to extend the security updates beyond 2025, for a price [1]

> Microsoft says an Extended Security Update (ESU) license for businesses will cost $61 per device for one year. That price will double every consecutive year, for up to three years.

[1] https://www.pcmag.com/news/microsoft-extends-security-update...